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Dennis Mitzner

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, June 30, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

What happened to Benjamin Netanyahu?

The policies destroying the Israeli economy and harming the future of a generation of children are cut from the same cloth as the obsession that helped Netanyahu give rise to a modern market economy.

November 29, 2020

Israel's National Coronavirus Project Coordinator Ronni Gamzu during a visit at the Jerusalem Municipality on Oct. 13, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel and the rise of health technocrats

Health officials becoming policymakers is an unhealthy development.

October 22, 2020

Israeli police officers on patrol at Machane Yehuda outdoor market in Jerusalem during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Oct. 13, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Daniel Kahneman, COVID-19 and the cascade of fear

Kahneman provides us a perfect explanation of what we are witnessing today and how low-risk scenarios cascade into oversized ones.

October 19, 2020

Protesters attend a demonstration against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the nationwide lockdown in Tel Aviv on Oct. 6, 2020. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.

Israel’s mass hysteria and slide to authoritarianism

Netanyahu’s alleged crimes and abuse of power are a distraction from the very real danger to Israeli democracy: the state’s encroachment on civil and individual liberties in the name of bad science.

October 12, 2020

Tel Aviv, Sept. 10, 2020. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Allow the private sector to revive the Israeli economy

Whenever officials try to rigidly manage complex systems, the results are the same: The negative consequences of intervention will explode, while the benefits are minimal at best.

September 10, 2020

Moshe Feiglin. Credit: Wikipedia Commons.

Israel’s libertarian moment

As Israel’s elections approach, the political campaigns have largely been focused on security issues. However, the rise of Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut is a sign that issues relating to individual and financial freedom are gaining in popularity.

April 4, 2019